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Arriving passengers stand in line while waiting to be screened at the Kahului Airport on Oct. 15, the day the state launched its pre-travel testing program allowing passengers to bypass quarantine if they could produce a negative COVID-19 test. Following a recent spike in cases, Mayor Michael Victorino said that he has submitted a request to Gov. David Ige to allow Maui County to require a second test for arriving residents and visitors. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
Citing fast-moving variants sweeping the island, Mayor Michael Victorino on Wednesday said a second test may be mandated come mid-April for returning residents and visitors to Maui County.
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Syringes are shown during a vaccination clinic at Maui Memorial Medical Center on Thursday. The hospital’s clinic is the only site on Maui currently taking new registrations from the public, but it may have to temporarily close Sunday afternoon if it doesn’t receive more doses today, officials said. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
Maui’s only vaccination clinic taking new registrations announced Saturday it will have to close for a week due to a shortage of Pfizer-BioNTech doses that were slated to come from the state.
Maui Health, which oversees Maui Memorial Medical Center’s vaccination clinic, announced Saturday afternoon that it will close to first vaccinations that were scheduled Sunday through Feb. 7.
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To help with contact tracing and potential exposure, the AlohaSafe Alert application launched today for all of Maui County, the first county in the state to put into use Hawaii’s COVID-19 exposure notification app. The Maui News / TERRIE ELIKER photo
Health care and emergency officials held a vaccination trial run at the University of Hawaii Maui College on Tuesday in preparation for the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution on Maui.
Throughout the morning in the UH-MC parking lot, officials and students from several organizations practiced a drive-thru vaccination model that will be implemented once distribution officially begins in Maui County.
MIKE REMBIS â Vaccine on its way. Zoom screenshots
The University of Hawaii-Maui College has donated a freezer large enough to house thousands of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to arrive on island by the end of the week, Maui Health CEO Mike Rembis said Monday night.
“The vaccine is on its way,” Rembis said during a Zoom presentation hosted by the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center. “I want to give a thank-you to the University of Hawaii-Maui College. They had a huge ultra-low freezer, which they were not using, which they loaned to us, so we can store literally thousands of vaccines below 70 to 80 degrees, and we have the capacity, potentially, for the entire island.”